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CLASS from page 9
major, redid her project three times.
Her final headdress was a cap-like
structure with mirrors to expand her
peripheral view.
“It makes me almost cross-eyed to
wear it,” Arnold said.
Many students experimented with
ways to alter their perspectives. One
student rigged his headdress so one
eye saw what was in front and the
other saw what was behind. Changes
like these created movement prob
lems for some.
“Just a minor shift in the direction
of your vision can really change your
point of view. I can hardly walk when
my headdress is on,” Pietzyk said.
After trying on several of the
headdresses before the march,
Watson, said she felt nauseated the
restoftheday. ,
“Some of the students have
changed the perspective so much that
walking in their headdresses really
perverts your vision,” she said.
Visual literacy is a semester-old
collaborative course between the art,
textiles and design, architecture, and.
interior design departments.
hi the course, faculty teach design
foundations formerly taught in classes
for the specific majors, and then stu
dents apply their lectures in lab ses
sions.
Last semester’s visual literacy
class worked cm projects similar to die
Visual Snorkel. For one assignment,
students had to make a cast of a body
part and then design a tattoo for die
casting.
This is the first time that the stu
dents have paraded their designs,
however. Vincent Quevedo, one of die
course’s instructors, said many of the
students experienced die same kind of
fear one feels about speaking in pub
lic. He hoped the experience helped
them overcome some performance
anxiety.
“If nothing else, they’ll always
remember, ‘When I was in college, I
marched with this green thing on my
head,”’ Quevedo said.
Perhaps, but some students will
recall a different experience.
“Maybe it was to teach humility,”
Doplhens said. “It certainly taught
that”
Aficionado tastes life through wine
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WINE from page 9
Through it all, the 52-year-old
Lincoln native keeps a level head, still
eager to share his thoughts with a
group of recreational wine drinkers
like die Hobnobbers.
Throughout the wine-tasting, he
seems to feed off of inquisitiveness
and constantly invites questions,
which he receives, ranging in topic
from grape lineage and fermentation
processes to proper pouring proce
dures, efficient corkscrews and
advantages of different glass shapes.
All die while he quenches thirsts with
tidbits of information and keeps the
event light and unintimidating.
“The right wine glass is whatever
can get it to your face,” he jokes.
“Actually, enhancing the flavor is
what glasses are all about”
And as people chuckle and sip, he
explains how white wine glasses are
slimmer because the wine is served
chilled, making the aroma of little
importance, while the aroma of a red
wine greatly enhances the flavor and
thus the glasses are wider.
Satisfied, his patrons take another
sip, making a conscious attempt this
time to take in the rich scent of die
night’s first red wine, a 1993
Calmasino Bardolino Classico.
By observing the tables of smiling
faces, Meier knows his tip was well
appreciated. Through his store and
restaurant, Meier is able to offer tips
like this to many people. To him its
one ofhis job’s most satisfying perks.
“It’s a one-person-at-a-time occu
pation, and it’s one of mutual trust If I
do well with my clientele, they’ll
reward me with business,” he says. “I
spent a great deal of time giving
myself a PhD. in wine knowledge. It’s
something that just piqued my interest
and it spurred me to learn anything I
could.
“It involves a lot of things. It’s phi
losophy, it’s love, it’s character and it’s
personal taste. So I use my communi
cations skills to get wine for a cus
tomer, to whittle down the myriad of
possibilities and get the bottle of wine
to fit that person.”
His desire to help people achieve a
fuller enjoyment of wine has also
prompted Meier, a graduate of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to
teach a portion of a fine food and
wine class at his alma mater, which
debuted last semester and is the only
class of its kind in die Midwest
As the wine tasting draws to a
close, Meier pours a round of 1997
Brachetto D’Acqui, a sweet, red and
bubbly sparkling wine that is thor
oughly enjoyed by all. He continues to
give advice and answer questions as
people descend into the Blue Heron’s
neighbor store, the Wine Merchant’s
Warehouse, in search of a wine to
. entice their newly inspired taste buds.
Meier hopes he’s instilled in his
patrons a desire to learn more about
wine and embark on an explanation
similar to his.
Until then, he’s happy to offer
advice.
“The reason that we stock thou
sands of different kinds of wine is
because we have thousands of differ
ent kinds of customers,” he says.
“Wine is the vehicle for that service
oriented interaction I get to have with
people.
“I go through my life making peo
ple happy. What better deal is there
than that?”
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